Rope clip



Nov. 2, 1937.

.1. FABER, JR

ROPE CLIP Filed Jan. 9, 1957 INVENTOR Elm/Z1166: J r

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ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 2, 1937 UNITED STATES FATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

There are instances in which it is desired to maintain a loop or noose in a rope in constricted state without tying it, for instance when the noose extends through the hem at the mouth of 5 a bag. While an expedient for this purpose should be adapted to maintain the noose constricted during normal handling it should also be adapted readily to permit enlarging or constricting the noose when manipulated in a prescribed 10 way,

I have by this invention devised a rope clip useful to these ends, and in carrying out my invention I have so designed the clip that it is substantial, strong and durable and quite simple 15 in construction and inexpensive to manufacture.

In the drawing,

Fig. l is a plan of the blank from which the shell of the clip is preferably formed;

Fig. 2 shows the clip assembled with a rope ex- 20 tending through a hem at the mouth of a bag,

as a laundry bag;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section of the clip;

Fig. 4 shows the clip aiilxed to a bag and as- 25 sembled with a rope extending through the bagmouth hem; and

Fig. 5 is a plan of a fragment of the bag, rope and clip shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to Fig. 1, the blank shown is a length of sime stiff sheet material, as metal, whose terminals 1 are (here) exact counterparts of each other and are joined by a reduced portion or neck 2 whose margins are preferably concave curvilinear; the side margins of the lobes 35 are here convex and are so related to each otherthat each lobe has a form generally tapering toward the free end of the lobe. Near the neck the lobes are apertured, in the example there being two such apertures 3 to each lobe, one 40 near each of its said side margins. Near the free end or apex of one lobe a tongue or lug iis cut out projecting away from such end, and near the apex of the other lobe there is a slot or hole 5.

Said length is bent on a transverse line cross- 5 ing its neck to bring the lobes opposite to and spaced from each other and the apertures 3 of one also opposite those of the other. To strengthen the shell thus formed and having opposite walls formed by the lobes the said side 5 margins of the lobes are also bent toward each other to form flanges 6 abutting together. When the lobes have been positioned to form the shell the lug 4 is bent up and extended through hole and then bent over on the lobe having such hole,

55 thus to couple firmly the two abutting lobes together. The flanges are graduated in depth, being of least depth near the ends of the lobes, so that the walls lie in convergent planes, for a purpose to appear.

i is a wire or other spring strip bent to bifurcated form and having the free ends la of its arms or extremities bent'toward each other; the bight lb formed therein is rather acute. Before the bending of the said length of material is completed to form the shell and when the lug 4 has 10 been bent up the spring strip is arranged on the lobe having such lug with its arms 'or'extremities flanked by the flange 6 of such lobe and its bight lb receiving said lug and between the same and the flange; on completing the bending so that the flanges of the lobes abut each other, the strip will be confined in the shell. Cut-outs at B exist in the completed shell, to wit, where the neck merges into the lobes, and the arms of file spring strip are of such length as to project from between the walls of the shell at these cutouts, their bent-off ends however being housed in the part of the shell which is formed by the neck. In this example the arms of the strip tend. to occupy positions beyond the corresponding apertures 3 relatively to the longitudinal axis of the clip, requiring effort to force them past the apertures and toward each other. Since the two walls of the shell are close together where they are interlocked by the lug the spring strip is confined by them at this point; the walls are more greatly spaced near the neck so that said strip may act somewhat to bend the rope portions which lie between the walls, thus the more efiectively to grip them. 7

Assume the noose a of a rope a reeved through the hem b of the mouth of a bag is to be equipped with the clip. With the arms of the spring strip urged together by pressure applied thereto at the cut-outs 8, the rope a is reeved through the apertures. The arms when released will now grip the rope portions which extend through the apertures, pressing the same against the sides of the apertures, thus clamping them. If the clip is slipped along the rope to constrict the noose the latter will be held constricted by the clip. The springstrip may have such strength that it cannot readily be slipped along the noose except by first pressing its arms manually together'at the cut-outs 8. r

In Figs. 4 and 5 the clip is afiixed to the bag. For this purpose there is a plate 9 secured to the bag by grommets It and having several spaced lugs H which are to be bent over upon the clip as shown to secure the clip to the bag, the grommets being spaced so as to register with the apertures 3 of the clip and the rope extending through the grommets.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. The combination, with a shell consisting of a length of stifi sheet material existing bent on substantially median transverse lines and having its terminals opposed to each other and converging toward their free ends, said terminals having substantially opposed apertures removed from said ends, and a bifurcated spring strip secured in the shell and having its bight confined between said ends of the shell and its extremities arranged to press against rope portions reeved through the apertures.

2. The combination, with a shell consisting of a length of stiff sheet material having its terminals formed as lobes which in form are substantial counterparts of each other and are connected by a narrow neck and said length existing bent on transverse lines crossing the neck and having its lobes opposed to and spaced from each other, said lobes having opposite apertures, of V springarms secured in and having terminal portions projecting from the shell and flanking the neck and being adapted to press from each other against rope portions reeved through said apertures.

3. The combination, with a shell consisting of a length of stifi sheet material having its terminals formed as lobes which in form are substantial counterparts of each other and said length existing bent on transverse lines and having its lobes opposed to and spaced from each other and one of them having remote from the bend a flange portion extending toward the other, said lobes having opposite apertures, of a bifurcated spring strip, arranged between said lobes and having its bight adjacent said flange portion and its extremities projecting from the shell and. being adapted to press in opposite directions against rope portions reeved through said apertures, said shell having a bent-ofi lug on one lobe received by the bight of the strip and between which lug and flange portion the bight is confined.-

,4. The combination, with a shell consisting of a length of stiff sheet material having its terminals formed as lobes which in form are substantial counterparts of each other and said length existing bent on transverse lines and having its lobes opposed to each other, said lobes having opposite apertures, of a bifurcated spring strip arranged between said lobes and having its extremities projecting fromthe shell and being adapted to press in opposite directions against rope portions reeved through said apertures, said shell having means to couple the two lobes and secure the strip in the shell including a bent-off lug on one lobe exending throughand bent over on the other and received by the bight of the strip.

JOHN FABER, JR. 

